Ap and Afp
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, September 28, 2024, p. 19
Crawfordville. The hurricane has already left at least 44 dead in the United States Helene which came with a category 4 and a huge storm surge. According to the AP agency’s count, the deaths occurred in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, where millions of homes were left without electricity.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said dozens of people were still trapped in buildings damaged by Helene. The authorities They have difficulty reaching certain placesso the crews, equipped with electric saws, They worked to clear the roadshe added.
The meteor made landfall Thursday night in the rural Big Bend area, which is home to fishing towns and vacation spots. However, damage extended hundreds of miles to the north, with flooding as far away as North Carolina, where a lake overflowed a reservoir. Several hospitals in southern Georgia lost power, and one in Tennessee was closed.
Climate change has exacerbated the conditions that allow these types of storms to thrive, as well as aggravating droughts and fires in other parts of the planet.
In this sense, an unbridled wave consumes the forests of South America, affected by historical droughts and bad practices in the countryside, which fuel a crisis that is already leaving dead people, cities covered in smoke and economic losses.
The fire rages in AL
Between January 1 and September 26, more than 400,000 fires were recorded throughout the region, estimates the National Space Research Institute of Brazil.
The most affected countries have been Brazil with 40.2 million hectares of vegetation destroyed in 2024, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia and Colombia, according to the European Copernicus observatory.
